Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;
For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.
I've been accident-prone since I was a kid climbing trees and falling out. I've come off a few motorcycles.
It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.
As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.
I think that a lot of people will agree that Donegal is the countryside, it's trees and fields, but especially when you're a kid you can make so much out of that.
Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.
Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.
What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.
I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.
The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing
In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out into the trees.
What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.
I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.
The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them
He writes in shining green
Across the world
His thoughts serene.
Having trees and a track to run on have become more important to me than living near cool restaurants.
Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.
The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.
Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.
Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I'll have in New York. I'll miss the trees!
As soon as your brain starts telling you that you can't have a tree that is blue then you stop being able to paint trees.
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people.
And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.
Spin is a tricky thing. When you're trying to avoid it - say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees - it's easy to make it happen.
The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.
And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.
I'm as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear.
And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.
I grew up on an apple orchard with a lot of surrounding wooded area, and I ran everywhere. I was outside all the time climbing trees.
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
When I started competing at X Games, there was so much chaos that often me and my girlfriends would go into the trees and just take a moment.
Upon the highest ridge of that round hill covered with planted oaks, the shafts of the trees show in the light like the columns of a ruin.
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.
I love touring in the United States. It's dramatically different wherever you go. North to south, you're going from snow to palm trees.
Here come the hum the golden bees
Underneath full blossomed trees,
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!
From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.
There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them.
Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.
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